'He’s a heartbreaker, but it’s not his first time' - Joe’s wonder point kills off Tipp

We’ll get to the game itself, a claustrophobic grapple to put you in mind of a crocodile trying to drown a water buffalo, but there’s only one starting point for discussing yesterday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final.

Joe Canning’s towering score to win the game for Galway from the sideline under the Cusack Stand.

He got his shot away with Tipperary men approaching from every direction and, with the benefit of cold reflection on the angle and the distance, was it a low-percentage shot?